SHORTAGES IN THE TEXTILE INDUSTRY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R002200210008-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 7, 1999
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: October 21, 1948
• Content Type: REPORT

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INFORMATI~~~ORT
COUNTRY t~ertmn~y ~Ruesian Zono)
SUBJECT 9horta~ee is tine Textile Industry
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1, Tyre rav mstsrital. position for the textile industry is such.that suoceas of
the Tray Year Ptsn seems i~osaible, Present ptoaka of raw ffiteriel ~t71 paco-
vid,e- wdrki~ r~terial for only the first teas ~weeka of 19494
2, The target for the Toro Year Plan i a 92 ail.lion r~eterrs of textile rmterials,
This quantity will only bo produced by ~akin~ a width of 4S anus. This qe-n
be done heaause the author3.tios who worked out the-plan did not stipulate
the width of the material, grid thus the textile mills scold cheat on this
point,
3. In a number of districts the working boors have elrea~r beon shortened, Zn
Forsts only l~DO out of 1,Q50 looms are still being operated. Some atoaking
factories in the Chemnita district are now workir,~g only 2 days a weekQ ,
4? Of thc~ ,1f0 percent of pause-ti~ae capaa3ty which has vurvived the war and
Soviet reparations, only 45-50 percent of the cloth industry and 35 percent
of the atoakis~ industry can be used,
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